Key Messages: for next week…

Friday – Red Nose Day. Children can come dressed in either red or 80s wear. Parents are invited in from 2:30pm to enjoy an 80s-themed disco.

An extra pair of trainers is required so that the children can use the field at lunchtime.

• Tuesday is swimming for 4R and 4Y. Please ensure that full swimming kit is brought in on that day. If your child cannot take part, please contact their teacher or the office to explain why.
• Thursday is PE for all of Year 4. Please send the children in wearing their PE kit.
• Children can come to school in their PE kit on swimming days.
• Please ensure children are wearing correct school uniform and shoes, including a tie.
• Please ensure children are bringing in their water bottles every day, preferably with a sports cap.

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Weekly homework tasks: 

Reading daily – please bring in your reading record signed by an adult.

TTRS - at least 3 times a week for 10 minutes.

Mathletics – Friday to Friday

AR Quizzes – complete on Accelerated Reader once book has been completed. This can be done at home or at school.

Please note, Mathletics has a different login to AR and TTRS.

Sir Linkalot – children can download the app and watch spelling videos.

This week we have been learning words from the ‘Delicious Didion’ bundle. Here are the words: century, complete, continue, delicious, describe, difficult, experience, extreme, extremely, favourite, grammar, important, material, opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar, position, possession, possible, probably

***Well done to everyone who has received a certificate so far for either Mathletics or TTRS***

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Term 4: Innovation Station

This term in Year 4 we are learning about the ancient inventions of the Islamic world and how we still use some of the products today. We will be learning about the Silk Road and how trade played a crucial role in the innovation of new ideas. We will also be exploring electricity, including circuits and how different materials can be classified as insulators or conductors. We would like the children to delve into the topic during their home learning by exploring one of these tasks, or a related task of their choosing. They may present their work in any way that they wish; it could be a presentation, poster, or something that they make. The possibilities are endless. This piece of work will need to be brought into school before the last week of term. If something is physically created, please can this be brought in or a photo stuck into books so we can celebrate the children’s success!

Please bring in any Thematic homework before the end of term.

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English:

In English this week we wrote a retelling of a chapter of our book ‘The Marvellous Journey of Edward Tulane’. This is where Edward is grabbed by a couple of unkind boys, thrown around the ship and ends up overboard. He sinks to the bottom of the ocean where he is then caught in a fisherman’s net and is re-homed by Nellie and Lawrence. The children were tasked with creating tension and suspense through language choice and varying the length of sentences. We also had a focus on using fronted adverbials with a comma.

Next week we will be writing a letter from Edward.

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Maths:

This week in maths we began our new unit of decimals. We started the week by looking at decimals as fraction equivalents and how we could use Dienes to represent them. Our focus was using tenths only and made comparisons between them. We finished the week by rounding numbers with one decimal place to the nearest whole number.

Next week we will continue to work with decimals and will be introducing hundredths.

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Thematic Curriculum:

During our afternoon sessions, we continued our learning of the Islamic civilisation. We delved into the House of Wisdom and how inventions from the past helped to shape the inventions we use today. We learnt about the story of the rise of the Islamic civilisation and answered our Big Question: Who Changed the World?

Wednesday was Science Day in honour of British Science Week. The day was filled with different science activities and the children had fun exploring with dissolving and which materials are waterproof. It was great to see the children hands-on and engaging with science – hopefully we have some future scientists in our midst.

 

Next week we will continue with our topic: Innovation Station, but will turn our attention to electricity and circuits.